Tom versus the JLA number 240 or no one puts Superman inside a jar.

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 240, the July 1985 issue entitled The Future Ain't

What It Used to be, with guest writer, Kurt Bucic, guest penciler Mike Sikowski, who a bit of a flashback

was the original Justice League of America artist

anchors Tom Mandrake letter is Helen Vesick Jean D'Angelo does the coloring

Alan Gold does the editing in the cover it's by Chuck Patton and Mike

Macklin that's right it's a little bit of a flashback fill-in issue featuring

Mike Sikowski the original Penciler of Justice League of America.

His figure's a little blockier, probably than most modern comic book artists at the time we were going with.

A lot of his figures seem to be kind of stocky.

I was never a big fan of Justice League of America work, the old stuff, but actually I kind of liked the art in this issue because he sort of got to

do a lot of more moodyer type stuff, a lot more line work in there, a little rougher. It was nice.

It was nice. This is kind of a fun fill-in story, so let's get right to it. We open at Star Labs,

where Fred and Daphne, two star lab employees are noticing that someone is

tapped it in a time stream that's right trapped in a time stream that means that fred's job seems to be

monitoring the time stream and you know how you know someone's trapped in it because he's looking at

the stream and there is a figure with a cane, a top hat, and a giant

coat floating through there. So, and that's a good sign. Someone's trapped in there.

Fred tells Daphne that he can use the same machine that they're using to monitor the time stream

to trace back this figure's history to find out how he got him at a time stream.

Convenient, is it not?

I do find it unusual, though, that the story takes place in 1985, yet Sikowsky seems to be

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